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[Benedict Hardy]

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[Hyndis]

Build a barracks at the entrance to your fortress. Recruit a squad of dwarves, equip them with whatever weapons and armor you have, and assign them to be on duty at that barracks.

They will train when there are no zombies to kill, and when zombies are sighted they will attack the zombies until the zombies are all dead, then return to their barracks to train more.

[nenjin]

Fliers are just a pain in the ass to deal with. Not even the caravan guards seem to have much luck killing them, I'll find tons and tons of bolts fired in my map but no dead Ravens.

Covered access to where your dwarves are going will definitely help all except woodcutters. Having an actual military would probably be wise. Of course, any owl you kill is just gonna get up and start flapping around again.

[malroth]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Owls/

[Crioca]

They're excellent for training up marksdwarves; because they're constantly missing all the bolts fall back down to the ground and you can recover them.

[Benedict Hardy]

e sfsf

[Girlinhat]

Burrows and "don't save corpses" in the orders screen.  (o, r, c(?) to change them to dump corpses in the garbage instead of stockpiling them.)  Also change them to collect refuse from outside, and they'll automatically dump any owl corpses.  Set the dump zone onto a pit, and... your dwarves will dump flying creatures into a shallow hole.  Yeah that might now work.

Well, it's "evil" biome for a reason!

Also, didn't know the good psychopaths at Cataclysm were running DF forts!

[nenjin]

If your dwarves are being traumatized to unhappiness already, but not actually getting hurt, you might as well just start walling yourself off. Because it's only going to get worse from there.

Here's an idea though. Try chaining up some war dogs outside your entrance or at key points. I've found ravens in my map really seem to enjoy picking on targets that can't run away. Of course, this went badly for the war dogs, but on the upside they did manage to retaliate some and hurt the ravens. And they won't get cranky about it.

Similarly, you could draft one dwarf and don't give him any weapons, then station him. He'll try to wrestle anything that gets close enough to attack him, and while it might take awhile, I bet once they get fighting and wrestling up they'll actually be able to pull down or charge an owl on its attack and beat on it.

[Valdrax]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Owls/

You are a monster.  Do you know how many days of other music I'm going to have to listen to to get that out of my head?

3) You don't quite understand what zombie owls are, if you think that a group of dwarves, no matter how numerous or dedicated, are going to be able to handle them. These things are fast like lightning. They stay about 30 Z levels up until they smell fear, and then they're all up in your beard, slightly bruising you, and sending you running in pants-shitting fear for the hills.

Okay, this got a pretty big laugh out of me.

[Linkeron]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Owls/

WHAT.

THE.

HELL.

[DungeonJerk]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Owls/

This does not bother me, for I have learned the art of emergency memory dump.

It's like ejecting a spent clip from a shotgun. Only for the mind.

[Benedict Hardy]

 ertg ergreg

[Broseph Stalin]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Owls/

I saw that. I saw that and that is okay. It's okay that that exists. I'm okay. Everything is going to be okay.

[Girlinhat]

It's not evil without anal violation.

Look into my pit idea some more though.  "Dwarves save corpses" to "dump" instead, and "dwarves gather refuse from outside" to on.  Then dig out a shallow pit with no ramps or stairs (may have to sacrifice a miner?) and designate it as a garbage zone.  Dwarves will now drag corpses to the pit and throw them in.  Give your soldier(s) bladed weapons, and eventually the wings should be severed, rendering the owls into feathered rats who can no longer fly, and who's wings will not resurrect.  At this point the pit will sustain.

[nenjin]

For future reference, make the room for a breeding pair of war dogs. They aren't that great and the ratio of dogs to goblins is probably 6:1......but they're a free pseudo military that costs you absolutely nothing except the puppy wrangling and an animal trainer. They can provide a little meat, leather and bones without the pain in the ass of grazing animals.

I like to stuff them all in a cage at the entrance to my fort, attach a lever and unleash a swarm of them until my military arrives. Of course that's under ideal conditions. Still, if you're going to embark to hell and aren't planning on making all 7 dwarves killers....might as well bring some breedable cannon fodder.